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President-elect Donald Trump wants to abolish the government agency that runs the country's public schools, but Miguel Cardona, who went from teaching fourth grade to serving as President Joe Biden's education secretary, vehemently defended it. Cardona, the first Latino commissioner of education in Connecticut, is a first-generation Puerto Rican. He is cautioning against Trump's promise to abolish the U.S. Department of Education and let each state manage education on its own as he gets ready to leave the agency. The Senate must ratify Trump's appointment of former wrestling executive Linda McMahon to head the department. Students' rights and opportunities are safeguarded when the federal Department of Education is protected. Otherwise, not everyone would have the same chance to achieve i...

According to a recent complaint, an 80-year-old woman passed away a month after her Sleep Number bed unexpectedly moved and imprisoned her against a wall for two days last year. at a complaint filed Tuesday, Rosalind Walker's daughter, Angela Moan, claims that on March 1, 2023, her Sleep Number bed, which had its adjustable base at a higher position, suddenly descended, trapping her between the bed and the wall of her Godfrey, Illinois, bedroom. According to the lawsuit, Walker was trapped and unable to release herself when the bed abruptly dropped with such force. Until emergency responders eventually freed her on March 3, she was still trapped in that position in the bedroom. According to the complaint, she was brought to a hospital, moved to a rehabilitation facility, and then sent home...

Many of the guests on NBC's "Meet the Press" have authored books about current events or their fields of expertise. They can be purchased here. Air Date: Dec. 15 Peggy Noonan A Certain Idea of America Air Date: Dec. 1 Jacob Soboroff Separated: Inside an American Tragedy Air Date: Nov. 17 Hakeem Jeffries The ABCs of Democracy Air date: Oct. 13 Liz Cheney Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning Air date: Sep. 29 Dan Slepian & JJ Velazquez The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice Air date: Sep. 1 David Rohde Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy Air date: Aug. 18 Gretchen Whitmer True Gretch: What I've Lear...

Syria's Damascus In the Syrian prison cell where American journalist Austin Tice was briefly detained, cockroaches scuttled out of the walls near a filthy, discolored sink, an ex-inmate told NBC News. According to Sahar al-Ahmad, he last saw Tice alive in July 2022 while he was in the cell across from him. I saw him twice. In an interview on Thursday, Ahmad stated that he never spoke to Tice but that he did catch a glimpse of him once while he was exercising and walking. Ahmad claimed that he had once been disciplined for four hours for disobeying orders and staring at a prisoner. He was able to give a detailed account of the jail, including the number of stairs going to the section where he was being held. NBC News is unable to independently confirm the treatment he received. Under the ...

After reportedly threatening to kill other state politicians, a newly elected West Virginia state lawmaker was taken into custody on Thursday. After an investigation revealed that Joseph de Soto "had made several threatening/intimidating threats against government officials," troopers arrested him early Thursday morning, according to a statement from West Virginia State Police Lt. Leslie T. Goldie Jr., who was elected in November to represent West Virginia in the House of Representatives. "The West Virginia State Police and the West Virginia Capitol Police take all threats against government process seriously," Goldie Jr. stated. "Any person making these threats used to intimidate, disrupt, or coerce the members of our West Virginia legislature or other governmental bodies will not be tole...

According to a Pelosi spokesperson, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was hurt and taken to the hospital in Luxembourg while traveling with a congressional delegation to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. "Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals," said Ian Krager, who provided a statement to reporters on Friday on behalf of Pelosi's congressional office. According to Krager, Pelosi is still working from the hospital.Note: Every piece of content is rigorously reviewed by our team of experienced writers and editors to ensure its accuracy. Our writers use credible sources and adhere to strict fact-checking protocols to verify all claims and data before publication. If an error is identified, ...

On Thursday, the sister of Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaiian lady at the focus of a missing persons inquiry in Southern California, updated the family's GoFundMe website to offer refunds to donors. The 30-year-old Hannah Kobayashi was discovered safe, according to her family's announcement on Wednesday, however they did not specify when or where she was located. "Hannah's safe arrival has brought us immense relief and gratitude. Our family has had an unfathomable ordeal over the past month," Sydni Kobayashi said on the GoFundMe website. "We would want to sincerely thank everyone who helped us through this trying time. We are so grateful for your thoughtfulness and kindness." Additionally, the post said that donations had been disabled and that anyone requesting a refund could do so by Decembe...

We know the health system does not function as well as it should, but said executive Brian Thompson was one of the people trying to improve the troubled American healthcare system. The CEO of UnitedHealth Group addressed the vehement frustrations, threats, and hate directed at healthcare insurers in a Friday morning op-ed published in the New York Times. "I understand people's frustrations with the system," said Andrew Witty, the chairman of UnitedHealth Group, the parent firm of United Healthcare. Nobody would create a system similar to ours. And nobody did. Decades have gone into creating this patchwork. In his opinion piece titled "The Health Care System Is Flawed," he stated that his goal is to assist in improving it. Let's make it right. Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was a su...

According to a court filing on Friday, McKinsey & Company agreed to pay $650 million in a deferred prosecution deal to end a federal criminal investigation into the company's consulting work advising Purdue Pharma on how to boost sales of its narcotic medication OxyContin. According to a petition in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, Martin Elling, a former top partner at McKinsey, also consented to enter a guilty plea to obstruction of justice next month in the U.S. Department of Justice investigation. The consulting firm allegedly knowingly and consciously colluded with Purdue Pharma and others to aid and abet the misbranding of prescription pharmaceuticals, according to the criminal charging document that McKinsey consented to have filed by prosecutors. According to the pape...

De'Vondre Campbell, a linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, was mocked by his teammates for seemingly refusing to play during Thursday night's season-ending loss to the Los Angeles Rams. According to 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan, Campbell refused to play when Dre Greenlaw, who had been injured, had to leave the game in the third quarter, bumping the veteran out of the starting lineup. After the game, Shanahan told reporters that he didn't want to participate today. Whether Campbell would be disciplined or removed from the squad was not immediately apparent. I'm not sure yet, but we'll work something out. "Shanahan said." The coach emphasized that the event from Thursday night would not be a continuous source of distraction. "When someone says that, you move on," he continued, "but people ...